Two Tents

The buds are looking ripe. The pistols are all turning brown. The trichomes are cloudy and amber. The leaves are all slowly being eaten up by the plant. Time to harvest. So I cut the whole lot down. I got estimated dry weight of 2oz Green Gelato and 1.7oz Northern Light including what has already been cropped. The Northern has well developed medium sized buds. It took up 1/3 of the tent. It has about ~20 stems supporting it. The Gelato had mostly smaller buds. Plenty of larf. It had 40+ stems trying to support buds. I realise this is way too many now. I’m going to prune for 12-16 for the next 5 gals. Maybe 9-12 for any 3 gal and 6-9 for 1 gal pots. This approach will allow me to fill the tent with more soil again. I realised already that bud quantity is directly related to soil quantity. This time I had less quantity, which I expected, but not automatically with more quality, which I wanted. The next time I’ll have two 5 gal and, soon after, two 1 gal pots ( Perpetual Pie & Fruit Salad) in the flowering tent. That should be about 36 stems, which I make as roughly half what I let grow in the same space with these two plants. Ideally each stem would hold at least 4g dry weight each. Any more weight would then put me in a position to finish one grow while still having stock from the previous grow. I can do longer cures. I can build up some supply.